Cooper Harris: Toddler ‘Struggled To Escape’ As He Was Left Dying By Father In Hot Car

The story of 22-month old Cooper Harris’ death continues to get more and more heartbreaking as new details from the investigation come to light. The toddler desperately tried to free himself from the hot car, according to a report.

Justin Ross Harris, 33, currently sits in a Georgia prison while he waits for a grand jury trial in the shocking death of his son Cooper Harris. On July 3, a judge ruled that there is “probable cause” to charge Justin with charges of murder and child cruelty and denied his bond. More gruesome details from Cooper’s struggle have been revealed in court.

Cooper Harris: Toddler ‘Strugged To Escape’ From Hot Car

Warning: The details from this trial are very upsetting.

New information from Cobb County Police Department Detective Phil Stoddard‘stestimony at Justin’s July 3 trial have been discovered. During the trial, Detective Stoddard said that injuries and abrasion’s on Cooper’s face, body and back of head show that he tried to escape the hot car where he ultimately died.

“It would have come from the child or a scratch being made while the child was alive and then not healing or scabbing over or anything after that, soon after he passed away,” the detective said about Cooper’s injuries, according to Mail Online.

We are so devastated that an innocent 22-month-old boy was allegedly killed in a gruesome manner by one of the people who is supposed to love and protect a child the most — his father. What do YOU think about all of this, HollywoodLifers? Do you believe Justin is guilty?

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Betty Harwood

Posted at 3:41 PM on September 4, 2014

If you don’t believe in God, then this situation is an example of evil. If you believe this is evil, then you have to believe there is a God. God bless this precious child who suffered at the hand’s of someone trusted.

As others have said, reading how this poor baby struggled as he was dying made me cry. Yet his mother was able to listen to the details of such in court without showing any emotion?Clearly something is very very wrong here . . . big big giant red flags.

Details of this case are sickening. Justin Ross Harris thought no one would question such a tragic “accident” but just in case he searched for “how to survive prison” since he might serve a little time for negligent childcare. The arrogant man left little Cooper to die in the car and went to work – sexting views of his erect penis to six women – that was work? He was celebrating his new “child-free life” (another computer search) and planning to collect $27,000 in life insurance on Cooper. His wife seems involved. When she went to pick up Cooper and was informed that he was not at daycare, she exclaimed, “Ross must have left him in the car.” Yeah. Even though Justin Ross Harris is at best a negligent idiot (if you buy the “accident” story) she praised her husband as “a wonderful father” at Cooper’s funeral. (A wonderful father that just killed their son.) She’s not angry at Ross at all. Actually, she wouldn’t want Cooper back alive – it would be too selfish, she said as her son was buried – because he’s happy in heaven. What more will we find out when the toxicology report comes in?

He knew what he was doing at that time when it had happen however I believe that him and his wife planned it all along. Hope he get jail for the rest of his life and he is defiantly guilty rip to his son

I hope that the other convicts he meets in prison treat him like he deserves to be treated! No excuse for intentionally leaving your baby in a car to suffer a long horrific death. POS man will get what’s coming to him.

@Mrs. Wright, he will probably ask to be put in protective custody for his own safety.
This case is high profile now and will set a precedent for all cases to come.
For all those irresponsible parents out there who think they can just forget about their kids because they have a lot going on. You better think again.
I have NEVER! in my life, EVER! forgotten one of my kids, or any child left in my care.
No matter what I have going on my kids and those left in my care come first.
Karma will certainly find Justin Ross Harris and justice will be served, somewhere down the road.